Our experts provided Program Controls function for this Greenfield Program, the largest private capital investment project in the US at the time, involving a hot rolling facility and facilities for cold rolling, cold strip finishing, galvanizing, a river terminal, rail yard, and all supporting Infrastructures.
Program fun facts:
Site size: 3500 Acres
Daily construction workers on site during construction: 30,000
For the foundations: 8.5 million cubic meters of earth was moved, roughly 75,000 piles were sunk and more than 750,000 cubic meters of concrete cast.
The amount of steel used in the construction of the plant would be enough to build ten Eiffel Towers.
Total covered area: 6,800,000 square foot.